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21) Paradise Hills
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A young woman is sent to Paradise Hills to be reformed only to learn that behind the high-class facility's beauty is a sinister secret.
22) Emma
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
24) Before we go
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A young woman races to catch the 1:30 train out of New York City to New Haven. Stranded in the city after being robbed and missing her train, she meets street musician Nick Vaughan. Starting as convenient acquaintances, the two soon grow into each other's most trusted confidants when a night of unexpected adventure forces them to confront their fears and take control of their lives.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Jupiter Jones was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning toilets and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along.
26) The Bostonians
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Olive Chancellor finds her infatuation with young activist Verena Tarrant challenged by a Southern lawyer who also loves her. An intricately drawn study of the impact of women's suffrage on society, The Bostonians is also a lush evocation of the late nineteenth century, with dazzling cinematography by Walter Lassally and a memorable score by Richard Robbins.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Kat Connor's mother mysteriously disappears, just as Kat is discovering and relishing her newfound sexuality. At first excited by her freedom, Kat soon finds herself confronted with the strange facts of her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it begin to haunt her.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
Cassie is wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past but will jeopardize her future.
29) Laggies
Pub. Date
2015
Description
In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes, then, taking an opportunity to escape for a week, hides out in the home of her new friend, sixteen-year-old Annika, who lives with her world-weary single dad.
30) Babylon A.D
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In the future, a mercenary named Toorop accepts a contract from Gorsky, a Russian mobster, who instructs him to bring a young woman only known as Aurora to New York. Gorsky gives Toorop a variety of weapons as well as a UN passport that has to be injected under the skin of the neck. Toorop, along with the girl and her guardian Sister Rebeka, leave the Noelite Convent where they lived. The three flee from an unknown group of mercenaries. The stress...
31) Hustlers
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Inspired by a true story, Hustlers follows Destiny, a young stripper struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she meets Ramona, the club's savvy top earner, who shows her the way toward making big bucks. But when the 2008 economic collapse hits their Wall Street clientèle hard, Destiny and Ramona concoct a plan with their fellow strippers to turn the tables on these greedy power players in this wild, modern-day Robin Hood.
32) Pearl
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Trapped on her family's secluded farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and domineering watch of her devout mother. Yearning for a glamorous life like she's seen in the movies, Pearl finds her ambitions, temptations, and repressions all colliding in this origin story of X's iconic villain.
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2004
Description
Based on the novel by E.M. Forster.
Set in the early 1900's. "Tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter). Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George (Julian Sands) and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis)"--Container.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
©2013
Description
There is something alive within the gloomy walls of Carwell Grange and it is not quite human. This spine-chilling, Victorian-era thriller pits bone-chilling fear against hot-blooded passion. As an orphaned child, Alice Maybell was taken in by Squire Fairfields. Now that she has grown into a beautiful young woman, his intentions have turned sinister. When she secretly marries his son, Charles, the Squire's wrath explodes and the desperate couple flee...
35) Little women
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author₂s alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig₂s take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
36) Chasing Liberty
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Anna Foster is the 18-year-old daughter of President of the United States James Foster. Anna has led a privileged life, but she has grown to resist the constant presence of Secret Service agents getting in the way of her independence. While on a family trip to Europe, Anna manages to get away from security for a brief time. She inevitably falls for Ben Calder, with whom she enjoys a fresh and clean European vacation. Not wanting to ruin her fun, she...
38) Holler
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A determined young woman from southern Ohio is handed her ticket out of a dying industrial town when she's accepted to college. To pay her way, she joins her brother on a dangerous scrap metal crew which steals from the once-thriving factories at night, then mans the scrapyard during the day. With her goal in sight, Ruth discovers that the ultimate cost for an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, finding herself torn between...
40) Mothering Sunday
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
With her employers out, a maid in 1920s England has a rare chance to meet with her secret lover, the son from a nearby manor. Class issues keep them apart, and although he is about to leave to marry a suitable wife, the events of this weekend could change their lives -- and love -- forever.
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